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William Z. Shetter’s Language Miniatures is always an interesting read. The current issue (#113), Language, Grammar, Verb, Noun, looks at words which fall into groups. In part it says: “… independent units we call a taxonomy. But … the examples finger-hand-arm-body are not describing units but progressively inclusive parts of something. This kind of a hierarchy is what we call a meronomy.”

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